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.TH MPI_Comm_size 3 "Jun 10, 2020" "4.0.4" "Open MPI"
.SH NAME
\fBMPI_Comm_size \fP \- Returns the size of the group associated with a communicator.

.SH SYNTAX
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.SH C Syntax
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#include <mpi.h>
int MPI_Comm_size(MPI_Comm \fIcomm\fP, int *\fIsize\fP)

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.SH INPUT PARAMETER
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.TP 1i
comm
Communicator (handle).

.SH OUTPUT PARAMETERS
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.TP 1i
size
Number of processes in the group of comm (integer).
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.TP 1i
IERROR
Fortran only: Error status (integer).

.SH DESCRIPTION
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This function indicates the number of processes involved in a
communicator. For MPI_COMM_WORLD, it indicates the total number of
processes available. This function is equivalent to accessing the
communicator's group with MPI_Comm_group, computing the size using
MPI_Group_size, and then freeing the temporary group via
MPI_Group_free. If the communicator is an inter-communicator (enables
communication between two groups), this function returns the size of
the local group.  To return the size of the remote group, use the
MPI_Comm_remote_size function.
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This call is often used with MPI_Comm_rank to determine the amount of concurrency available for a specific library or program. MPI_Comm_rank indicates the rank of the process that calls it in the range from  0 . . . size-1, where size is the return value of MPI_Comm_size.

.SH NOTE
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MPI_COMM_NULL is not considered a valid argument to this function.

.SH ERRORS
Almost all MPI routines return an error value; C routines as the value of the function and Fortran routines in the last argument. C++ functions do not return errors. If the default error handler is set to MPI::ERRORS_THROW_EXCEPTIONS, then on error the C++ exception mechanism will be used to throw an MPI::Exception object.
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Before the error value is returned, the current MPI error handler is
called. By default, this error handler aborts the MPI job, except for I/O function errors. The error handler may be changed with MPI_Comm_set_errhandler; the predefined error handler MPI_ERRORS_RETURN may be used to cause error values to be returned. Note that MPI does not guarantee that an MPI program can continue past an error.

.SH SEE ALSO
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MPI_Comm_group
MPI_Comm_rank
MPI_Comm_compare

